Communication Quote by Philip Gerard

Dialogue, contrary to popular view, is not a recording of actual speech; it is a semblance of speech, an invented language of exchanges that…

— Sol Stein

There is no such thing as realistic dialogue. If you [simply recorded] the real conversation of any people and played it back from the…

— Joseph L. Mankiewicz

As a reporter, you develop an ear for dialogue because it's your job to capture it accurately.

— Michael Connelly

During the actual filming, I’m not really listening to dialogue. I’m watching to see if the actors are communicating something and expressing something. I’m…

— John Cassavetes

Dialogue should simply be a sound among other sounds, just something that comes out of the mouths of people whose eyes tell the story…

— Alfred Hitchcock

On the whole, dialogue is the most difficult thing, without any doubt. It's very difficult, unfortunately. You have to detach yourself from the notion…

— John Fowles

There is no such thing as conversation. It is an illusion. There are intersecting monologues, that is all.

— Rebecca West

Good dialogue is not real speech-it's the illusion of real speech.

— Ernest Hemingway

I'm not someone who enjoys long talks, long rehearsals. I'm very technical: I tell my actors, you come in, you sit down, you pick…

— Michael Haneke

I see people in terms of dialogue and I believe that people are their talk.

— Roddy Doyle

In real life, people fumble their words. They repeat themselves and stare blankly off into space and don't listen properly to what other people…

— Christopher Guest

Good dialogue illuminates what people are not saying

— Robert Towne